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On the screen, the spinning icon halted. A green checkmark appeared. Connected.

The tunnel collapsed instantly. The software executed its self-cleaning script, wiping the temporary files from the computer's RAM. To the terminal, it was as if the last five minutes had never happened.

Leo was a "Data Runner." In a city where the Information Firewall was as physical and imposing as the concrete blast walls surrounding the district, people like Leo were the cracks in the mortar. He didn’t smuggle physical goods; he smuggled truth.